Sunday, August 11, 2013

Letter to Julia 20130812

In the name of Allah, most Gracious, most Merciful.

Dearest Julia, how are you feeling today?  Are you having fun, wearing disguises, being a secret agent, and running your own spy network?  No, I haven't done anything wrong, inshaAllah.  I want to be married, so I just stay at home most of the time, and I go out only to do shopping, and use the Internet.  I spent the day raking and burning around Casa de Julia inshaAllah.  There is so much work to do, and I can't seem to get properly started.  But the lawn seems to have acquired a life of its own, far from the jungle it was 4 years ago, and it's starting to look civilized, alhamdulillah.  I spend most of my time at home.  When I had friends, I had only a few friends, and now I have less than that.  You are blessed to have so many friends.  I don't think it's necessary for you to find new friends, just to cherish the ones you already have.  For you are already on top of the world, inshaAllah.  Because you are MY girl.  I love you, and I want to marry you.

Qur'an 20130811

In the name of Allah, most Gracious, most Merciful.

154.  After that of the distress, God sent down calm on a band of you overcome with slumber, while another band was stirred with anxiety by their own feelings, moved by wrong suspicions of Allah- suspicions due to ignorance.  They said, "What affair is this of ours?"  Say you, "Indeed, this affair is wholly Allah's."  They hide in their minds what they dare not reveal to you.  They say,"If we had had anything to do with this affair, we would not have been in the slaughter here."  Say, "Even if you had remained in your homes, those for whom death was decreed would certainly have gone forth to the place of their death."  But that Allah might test what is in your breasts, and purge what is in your hearts.

The Family of Imran 3:154
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Indeed, this affair is wholly Allah's.

Even if you had remained in your homes, those for whom death was decreed would certainly have gone forth to the place of their death.